Given Quotes
Tim has given me confidence and strength and my foundation. He makes me feel like I can conquer the world.
... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
Nothing is given so willingly as advice.
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
In the feeding of hospital patients, more attention should be given to providing tasty and attractive meals, and less to the nutritive quality of the food.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.
We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.
Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.
That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.
And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?
One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.
Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.
